Support for bigdatetime and bigtime datatypes

Replication Server supports replication of the bigdatetime and bigtime datatypes included with Adaptive Server. You can replicate these datatypes to replicate databases and warm standby databases by specifying the datatypes in replication definitions, function replication definitions, and subscriptions.

bigdatetime and bigtime allow Adaptive Server to store data and time data up to microsecond precision. bigdatetime corresponds to the TIMESTAMP datatype, and bigtime corresponds to the TIME datatype in Sybase IQ.

See “Date/time, and date and time datatypes,” in Chapter 2, “Topics” in the Replication Server Reference Manual for descriptions of the datatypes.

These examples show how to use bigdatetime and bigtime in a replication definition, a function replication definition, and a subscription. In these examples:

• PDS – primary data server

• pdb1 – primary database

• RDS – replicate data server

• rdb1 – replicate database

• tb1 – table

• col1, col2, col3 – columns

• rep1 – replication definition

• func1 – function replication definition

• sub1 – subscription

See Chapter 3, “Replication Server Commands” in the Replication Server Reference Manual for descriptions of the commands.

create replication definition rep1
with primary at PDS.pdb1
with all tables named tb1
(col1 int, col2 bigdatetime, col3 bigtime)
primary key (col1)

create function replication definition func1
with primary at PDS.pdb1
(@par1 int, @par2 bigdatetime, @par3 bigtime)
searchable parameters (@par1)

create subscription sub1 for rep1
with replicate at RDS.rdb1
where col3 = ‘14:20:00.010101’
without materialization